Tracklines of a multibeam survey of the Hudson Shelf Valley carried out in 1998 (polyline shapefile, geographic, WGS 84)

• Main Author: U.S. Geological Survey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2017
• Subjects: tracklines; polyline shapefile; WHCMSC field activity 1998-015-FA; multibeam; Simrad EM1000; Canadian Coast Guard ship Frederick G. Creed; Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC); Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP); U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS); University of New Brunswick (UNB); USGS Open-File Report 03-372; oceans; location; Hudson Shelf Valley; New York Bight; Middle Atlantic Bight; Hudson Canyon; New York; New Jersey; North Atlantic Ocean; Hudson; Long Valley; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/57baccac-e3dd-44f7-a29f-7569a3676be9

The Hudson Shelf Valley is the submerged seaward extension of the ancestral Hudson River drainage system and is the largest physiographic feature on the Middle Atlantic continental shelf. The valley begins offshore of New York and New Jersey at about 30-meter (m) water depth, runs southerly and then...